Michael Horowitz
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| Born | 1978 | |||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||
| Ethnicity | Jewish | |||||||||
| Alma mater | • Emory University • Harvard University | |||||||||
| Member of | Center for a New American Security, Committee on the Present Danger, German Marshall Fund/Young Strategists | |||||||||
CFR. Young, spooky academic peddling military artificial intelligence. First Bilderberg in 2018.
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Michael C. Horowitz is a US academic and member of the militarist pressure groups Center for a New American Security and Committee on the Present Danger, who attended his first Bilderberg meeting in 2018.[1]
Education
Horowitz grew up in Lexington, MA. He attended Emory University, where he was a member of a team that won the 2000 National Debate Tournament.[2] He graduated from Emory in 2000 with a BA in political science, then received a PhD in Government from Harvard University.
He was selected a "Young Strategist" by the German Marshall Fund.
Career
Horowitz has a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include "the intersection of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics with global politics, military innovation, the role of leaders in international politics, and geopolitical forecasting methodology."[3]
In 2013 he was an International Affairs Fellow, funded by the Council on Foreign Relations, in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He is author of the book The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics, which "examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power."[4][4]
He has held fellowships at the Weatherhead Center, Olin Institute, and Belfer Center at Harvard.[5]
He worked on the AUKUS agreement during his time at the Pentagon from 2022 to 2024.[6] He also argues for a systemic reform of the Pentagon's budget process .[7]
On February 25, 2020, Horowitz was appointed director of Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania's think tank for Global Affairs. He previously was the think tank's Associate Director from 2015 to 2019.[8]
Horowitz is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[9]
He is "agenda contributor" for the WEF, writing a piece in January 2018 on "Academia can be an important vanguard of the Fourth Industrial Revolution".[10]
When the second Trump administration introduced a $1 trillion military budget, Horowitz wrote:
The legislation pushes the total planned defense spending requests and appropriations to over $1 trillion for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26). It includes a $156.2 billion increase in national defense funding, in addition to the Pentagon's request for approximately $848 billion in defense spending for FY26....There’s a risk that, without sustained follow-on funding, the bill’s investments will stall—wasting both resources and momentum.[11]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2018 | 7 June 2018 | 10 June 2018 | Italy Turin Hotel Torino Lingotto Congress | The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government. |
| Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events." |
| Munich Security Conference/2020 | 14 February 2020 | 16 February 2020 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." Slightly over 1/4 of them have pages. |
| Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Slightly over 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here |
| Munich Security Conference/2025 | 14 February 2025 | 16 February 2025 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
References
- ↑ https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2024-08/HorowitzResumeAugust2024.pdf
- ↑ http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_book_club/features/2010/debating_debate_club/your_style_of_arguing_is_ruining_american_political_discourse.html
- ↑ https://hcss.nl/expert/dr-michael-horowitz/
- ↑ a b http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9204.html
- ↑ https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/michael-horowitz/
- ↑ https://perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-insight/the-australia-uk-u-s-aukus-security-agreement-a-qa-with-michael-c-horowitz/
- ↑ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/fixing-the-pentagons-broken-innovation-pipeline
- ↑ https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/02/michael-horowitz-perry-world-house-director
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230928110227/https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/3022638/dr-michael-c-horowitz/
- ↑ https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/01/academia-vanguard-fourth-industrial-revolution-4ir-universities/
- ↑ https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/will-trumps-big-beautiful-defense-spending-last
